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Such numbers can be deceiving, however, because high technology has an explosive impact on other occupations. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Labor Secretary under President Nixon: "It generates jobs all around like a great catalyst." In Fort Worth, which is part of the so-called Silicon Prairie computer and electronics area of northeast Texas, high tech has added fewer than 10,000 positions since 1979, but it has helped to create service opportunities for another 92,000 workers...
Moreover, reliance on such criteria promotes unnecessary anxiety among first-year-students. Ironically, it was this very anxiety which induced more than 400 first-year students to sign a petition to deny the Law Review access to their grades. Since this petition was the catalyst for the recent change in policy, the Law Review's emphasis on grades in this sense backfired...
...Eighty percent of the history of life was unknown before he started his research," a colleague and a former student of Barghoorn's Associate Professor of Biology Andrew H Knoll, said yesterday, adding that Barghoorn was the catalyst for the research over the past two decades...
...Ohno again was the catalyst as he sent Busconi in alone on Silengo with a pretty pass from his own blue line. Busconi finally caught up with the puck in the offensive zone and, from the doorstep, backhanded it by the goaltender at the 4.12 mark...
...Marines in Lebanon. Although the international forces stationed in Beirut can serve as a valuable stabilizing force while the Lebanese hammer out a settlement, their stay should not be open-ended. As the recent car bomb attack at the Marine compound illustrates, the Marines may only serve as a catalyst for still more violence. The United States should withdraw the Marines as soon as they are confident such a withdrawal would not prompt fresh violence...